Hiring picked up in February, helping to bring the unemployment rate down to its lowest level since December 2008. The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. That’s much stronger growth than in January, when employers hired a revised 119,000 workers. [CNN] THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate dipped to [...]
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Showbiz Beat: Jon Stewart Taking 12-Week Summer Hiatus to Direct Political Feature Film
THE REPORT is an exclusive from Deadline. Stewart has written the script, and will direct Rosewater, an adaptation of the book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival. Published in 2011 by Random House, the book is Maziar Bahari’s harrowing ordeal of leaving London in June 2009 to cover [...]
Republicans Target Ashley Judd, and Tucker Carlson’s Beat is Her Boobs
We are used to knowing just about everything there is to know about serious political candidates. But will Judd be the first potential senator who has — literally — nothing left to show us? [...] In both 1996′s “Norma Jean and Marilyn” and 1999′s “Eye of the Beholder,” Judd went full frontal and bared her [...]
Obama Can’t Do “Jedi Mind Meld” So We’re Obviously Screwed [Remarks - Video]
“I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington: That somehow, even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal — the fact that they don’t take it, means that I should somehow do a Jedi mindmeld with [...]
The Entire Political Press World is Laughing at Bob Woodward [Video] *Updated*
THE GRAPHIC above is from Gawker, with John Wood doing a massive take down of Bob Woodward, who is getting pilloried by the press and established journalists. The graphic is apt, because Woodward went out on a limb and his colleagues sawed it off. Wood also goes back over Woodward’s career, including the Watergate tale, [...]
Seth, Sexism, and Shirley, Barbra and Jane
But 40.3 million viewers tuned in to watch Sunday’s 85th annual Oscars, a million more than last year, and the 3-hour-and-35-minute trophy show turned in its biggest total since 2010. Among the young-male fan base of MacFarlane’s often-crude Family Guy and Ted, the audience grew 34% over last year, a bigger jump than for any [...]
Seth MacFarlane’s Hilariously Funny Boob Song
THE BRITISH got the joke, but across the U.S. chattering Twitterati, especially among the political class, there was outrage and shock. It shows what most of the critics know about show business, let alone the film industry. But that didn’t keep the rolling whines from coming in from people who don’t know squat about being [...]
Oscar for Best Picture, ARGO, Evidently Directed Itself *Updated*
IT WAS a long night for Ben Affleck, waiting to see if his film, which garnered the Oscar for adapted screenplay, beating out Tony Kushner’s lush crafting of Lincoln, would win. But Affleck was rewarded in the end with the most coveted Oscar of all, Best Picture, with First Lady Michelle Obama making a surprise [...]
Celebrating Movies with Oscar, and Seth McFarlane
THE HOSTING gig for the 85th Oscars, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science [yes, they take themselves very seriously], this year jumped around until Seth McFarlane showed up on SNL and rocked the house. Tonight’s as big as it gets for someone who’s either going to lodge into everyone’s mind as [...]
As the Pope Turns, the Villain in the Vatican
HE WAS once called “God’s Rottweiler,” but the entanglement of scandal that has become Pope Benedict’s reign and will be his legacy is now morphing into the stuff of potboiler melodrama. Think Godfather III, the reality show edition. The paper claims that around the time that Pope Benedict decided to step down, the pontiff learned [...]
Valentine’s Day at the Movies… and “Sexpectations” [Videos]
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle [...]
News Desk: Ben Affleck’s “ARGO” Wins Best Film at Britain’s BAFTAs [AFP Report]
Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ named best film at BAFTAs (via AFP) Iran hostage crisis drama “Argo” won the best film prize at Britain’s BAFTA awards in a further boost for US actor-director Ben Affleck’s movie ahead of the Oscars later this month. At a rainy but celebrity-packed ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London on [...]
Fox & Friends on Hillary: “Facelift Perhaps?” So What If She Had?
Is this the face of presidential ambition? Days after retiring as Secretary of State, somebody has launched a website for her, showing off this glamorous new face. Face lift, perhaps? Well, that’s fueling rumors about a run for president in 2016, but her aides say it’s simply a way for fans and the media to [...]
One Billion Rising: Robert Redford on Why He’s Working to ‘Break the Chain’ of Violence Against Women [VIDEOS]
Violence against women and girls is a global crisis, an international shame. I’ve written about the V-Day organization (founded by Eve Ensler), and their One Billion Rising action on February 14, featuring “Break the Chain,” here. Between now and February 14, I’ll post videos related to that project. First, from One Billion Rising, about the [...]
Super Bowl #Clydesdales Sunday *Updated*
THIS IS America’s Sunday of sharing one sport. But if football isn’t your thing, TCM is in their Oscar month of greatest films. Even many football agnostics watch the Super Bowl. Some watch it for the commercials. Some pretend to watch it, but simply tolerate it for the good eating. What’s your favorite recipe? Or [...]
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